RANT
Ok so maybe Im not the greatest mountian biker in the world. And maybe I dont have the trickest carbon framed, tubeless tired, single speeded, 7 inch travel, 12 pound, $6500 bike that just came out. I also havent bombed around Moab for a month on my parents money. Ive never celebrated breaking my collarbone. I bought my bike from Craigs list. It was a $700 bike 4 years ago. It may not be the greatest but its mine and it works. My problem is the mouth breathing douche bags that work in most bike shops I go to do a very poor job of acting like they care about making a sale. Or even dealing with people they dont know, or arent biker enough. Whatever the fuck that means. Pretend for me that you actually can work that chunk of grey matter behind your bulbous forhead. You sell my brand of bike yet you have trouble finding brake shoes for it? Uhhhhhhhh. Wrong answer. Can you recommend some shoes I can buy online? Uhhhhhhh. Thanks. My next question is...oh wait youve answered the phone while I was asking it. My mistake I forgot this was really one big boys club and I dont know the seceret shimano handshake. This is why people dont like bikers. Not that theyre annoying, or are tearing up the land (we arent) or act like were better than you (but some do). Its because if you go into a bike shop and act like a beginner/rookie/noob you will get treated like a dunce or ignored all together. God help you if you bother these guys while they are chatting about thier latest downhill conquest max air free ride huck fest bomb run. If Im going to drop a grand on a new bike it better come with some freaking good service from someone who actually wants to sell the damned thing and make a new customer in the process. Not some schmuck who works there so his dad will get off his back about not having a job. Ghhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Fuckit Imma go back to buying shit online.
Ok so maybe Im not the greatest mountian biker in the world. And maybe I dont have the trickest carbon framed, tubeless tired, single speeded, 7 inch travel, 12 pound, $6500 bike that just came out. I also havent bombed around Moab for a month on my parents money. Ive never celebrated breaking my collarbone. I bought my bike from Craigs list. It was a $700 bike 4 years ago. It may not be the greatest but its mine and it works. My problem is the mouth breathing douche bags that work in most bike shops I go to do a very poor job of acting like they care about making a sale. Or even dealing with people they dont know, or arent biker enough. Whatever the fuck that means. Pretend for me that you actually can work that chunk of grey matter behind your bulbous forhead. You sell my brand of bike yet you have trouble finding brake shoes for it? Uhhhhhhhh. Wrong answer. Can you recommend some shoes I can buy online? Uhhhhhhh. Thanks. My next question is...oh wait youve answered the phone while I was asking it. My mistake I forgot this was really one big boys club and I dont know the seceret shimano handshake. This is why people dont like bikers. Not that theyre annoying, or are tearing up the land (we arent) or act like were better than you (but some do). Its because if you go into a bike shop and act like a beginner/rookie/noob you will get treated like a dunce or ignored all together. God help you if you bother these guys while they are chatting about thier latest downhill conquest max air free ride huck fest bomb run. If Im going to drop a grand on a new bike it better come with some freaking good service from someone who actually wants to sell the damned thing and make a new customer in the process. Not some schmuck who works there so his dad will get off his back about not having a job. Ghhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Fuckit Imma go back to buying shit online.